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Originally Posted by nrthwds
Did you have to purchase a hitch extension from Escape for your F150?
It's a heavy L shaped piece of iron they add if your hitch is too high on the f150 for the standard Hitch the E2 comes with. If so it might have made your license plate further away from the ball.
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That makes sense... but it's not an extension, it is a shank of a different size.
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Originally Posted by dlakeman
Yes I had to purchase the separate stinger/extension from ETI because of the distance between the bottom of my F-150 hitch receiver and the ground. It did move the ball farther away from the license plate.
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All of the genuine Fastway e2 shanks (
for trunnion hitches and
for round bar hitches, but there's no reason for them to be different) are shown by Fastway as having the same length (12 inches). It seems likely that Escape provided a shank from some other manufacturer (perhaps to get more drop?), which is excessively long.
An additional hole can be drilled (and the shank end cut shorter if necessary) to shift the shank forward, as long as none of the parts interfere. The most likely interference is one of the gussets on the shank hitting the receiver at the bottom or top of the opening.
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Originally Posted by dlakeman
There's only one hole in the stinger for the hitch pin so I can't slide the stinger into the hitch receiver farther. When learning how to back up, and with my wife as a spotter, on a tight driver's side turn she allowed the forward cargo container to hit my bumper so I wouldn't want to shorten the stinger.
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It doesn't matter how far you extend the hitch, it's still possible to jackknife the rig (hitting trailer parts on the bumper) in reverse. As long as nothing hits in the tightest possible
forward turn, the shank is long enough.
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